Lalaine

For six months Lalaine's song "You Wish", written for the movie of the same name, was in the Top 30 Radio Disney songs. Ouspenskaya died from a stroke several days after receiving severe burns in a house fire, which she had caused by falling asleep while smoking a cigarette. She has been working with Radio Disney, performing her songs all over Southern California, and went to Hawaii with Disney's Imagineers. Despite her two Academy Award nominations her later films were inferior productions such as Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) and Tarzan and the Amazons (1945). Lalaine wrote six songs on the album herself, including "Life is good","Can't Stop", and "Save Myself". Her other successes included The Rains Came (1939), Waterloo Bridge (1940), The Mortal Storm (1940), and Kings Row (1942). On July 8, 2003, Lalaine released her new independent album,"Lalaine: Inside Story". She received a second nomination in 1939 for her role in Love Affair.

In addition to her acting career, Lalaine is involved in many charity events, such as the AIDS benefit concert and NSYNC's challenge for the youth. Her first Hollywood role, in Dodsworth (1936) brought her a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Lalaine also portrayed "Chloe", a young Slayer-In-Training who commits suicide, on the hit TV-Series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Although she had appeared in a few Russian silent films many years earlier, Ouspenskaya had avoided making a career in film, until the financial hardship of her school forced her to consider the possibilities of film to help her build her finances. She starred alongside AJ Trauth in the Disney Channel original movie You Wish as "Abby". One of Ouspenskaya's students at the school during this period was the then unknown teenager, Anne Baxter. She also played orphan "Kate" in the Disney Channel version of the movie Annie. She performed regularly on Broadway over the next decade, and in 1929 she founded the School of Dramatic Art in New York.

Lalaine's voice has been used for many movies, including Inspector Gadget and Lolita. The Moscow Art Theatre travelled widely throughout Europe and when it arrived in New York in 1922 she decided to remain. She also participated in a theater play in her home state, called Brundibar. A member of the Moscow Art Theatre, she was directed by Konstantin Stanislavski, and for the remainder of her life advocated and taught his method. When Lalaine returned to California, she was able to act in several television commercials, including some of those for Microsoft and Burger King. Born in Tula, Russia, Ouspenskaya studied singing in Warsaw and acting in Moscow and performed extensively in Russian theater. In it, she played Eponine, a character that has also been played by Debbie Gibson among others. Maria Ouspenskaya (July 29, 1876 - December 3, 1949) was a Russian born actress who achieved success as an stage actress as a young woman in Russia, and as an elderly woman in Hollywood films.

Lalaine's road to stardom began when she was she was hanging out with Nikki Alberto and she found a job at the Broadway production of Les Miserables. She is a Eurasian of three quarters Filipino and one quarter Spanish descent. Lalaine grew up in California. Lalaine played "Miranda Isabella Sanchez" on Disney Channel's highly-rated show, Lizzie McGuire, alongside Hilary Duff.

Lalaine Vergara-Paras (born June 3, 1987 in Burbank, California) is a young actress who is a native of Manila, Philippines; she normally is credited by her first name only.